On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
But we're trying to design the OO features (indeed, all of Perl 6)
such that you can usefully cargo cult those aspects that are of
immediate interest without being forced to learn the whole thing.
It's not the number one design goal, but it's right up
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 09:36:48AM +0200, Michele Dondi wrote:
: On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Larry Wall wrote:
:
: But we're trying to design the OO features (indeed, all of Perl 6)
: such that you can usefully cargo cult those aspects that are of
: immediate interest without being forced to learn the
--- Larry Wall wrote:
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:24:52PM +0200, Michele Dondi wrote:
: But maybe that's just me. Whatever, I guess that the {casual,average}
: programmer may be scared by its richness and complexity.
But we're trying to design the OO features (indeed, all of Perl 6)
such
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Stevan Little wrote:
I think Perl 6's OO system has the potential to be to OO programming what
Perl 5, etc was to text processing. This, I believe, is in large part due to
Sorry for replying so late. Thought it seems appropriate to post this in
this time of Perl 6 fears
On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:31 AM, Michele Dondi wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Stevan Little wrote:
I think Perl 6's OO system has the potential to be to OO
programming what Perl 5, etc was to text processing. This, I
believe, is in large part due to
Sorry for replying so late. Thought it seems
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Stevan Little wrote:
Well, the point is that it is interesting to note that text processing
is an _application area_, whereas OO programming is a programming
language paradigm.
Allow me to clarify.
Perl 5 (and below) are known by outsiders (non-perl users) as being a
